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Putting an End to Drug Testing
For the past 35 years, drug testing has been an essential, yet largely under-examined, pillar of the war on drugs. Millions have been drug tested in the places where we spend most of our waking hours - schools, jobs, and our homes - and throughout the criminal legal system.
Drug testing serves as another way to deny care and to target, surveil, and criminalize people - both those who use drugs and do not - particularly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people and low- and no-income people. Ending the drug war means ending drug war surveillance and stopping practices that monitor and punish rather than increase health, safety, and autonomy.
Criminal Justice Reform
Fact Sheet
For the past 35 years, drug testing has been an essential, yet largely under-examined, pillar of the war on drugs. Millions have been drug tested in the places where we spend most of our waking hours - schools, jobs, and our homes - and throughout the criminal legal system.
Drug testing serves as another way to deny care and to target, surveil, and criminalize people - both those who use drugs and do not - particularly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people and low- and no-income people. Ending the drug war means ending drug war surveillance and stopping practices that monitor and punish rather than increase health, safety, and autonomy.
Criminal Justice Reform
Fact Sheet